The "Related" sidebar appears when you display an existing question in SQLA. It contains a list of titles for other questions that the underlying software believes are related to this one... in other words, it is a "Related Questions" list.

I am going to get rid of the "Related" sidebar, unless I hear strong objections.

Here are my reasons:

(1) It's not a very useful list; personally, I have never used it, but... that's not the main reason...

I won't miss it. For me the list shows topics that are as much relevant as the hits of the internal search I've tried. Not want I would want to see (in other words: crab). But you could try waving a dead rabbit over the keyboard (Easter is coming...)

I have looked at "Related" now and then (and sometimes wondered what makes those questions related:), so I would not call this feature absolutely useless. However, it's not critical to me, particularly if it is responsible for the suboptimal search results. - I would recommend to (temporarily?) disable/drop the list to see if that fixes the problem.

@Breck: Looks better - and google seems to return better results now (though I would not expect the indexed pages to be re-indexed in the interim). Glad you re-tagged - hope this site is doomed to be successful.